Under a Kantian approach to ethics, a person should not lie to colleagues unless that person supports the right of all colleagues to lie to one another.

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Final Answer : True, Explanation :  Kantian ethics hold that lying is always wrong, as it is using someone merely as a means to an end (as opposed to treating them as an end in themselves). Therefore, a person cannot support their own right to lie without simultaneously supporting the right of all others to lie, as all moral rules must be universalizable.

Under a Kantian approach to ethics, a person should not lie to colleagues unless that person supports the right of all colleagues to lie to one another.

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